Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Candidates for Second-Year or Final Honors who desire to substitute their theses for the work in English C. should consult Mr. Baker on Tuesday in regard to the matter...
...interesting question what do you expect this education to do for you? There is an almost infinite variety of choice in the studies which you may pursue. What do you expect to attain? I will just mention one thing for which you will all strive, no matter by what course of studies. There are two great classes of the human race; first, that great majority which repeats from day to day the same routine of duties, and secondly, the few who can go beyond the present and can disign something and are able to originate. This long and elaborate education...
...sense of every Harvard man. We have no sympathy with those who look upon Bloody Monday as a sacred institution and the Faculty in their opposition to it as a body of ruthless iconoclasts. Such a view, for one thing, makes much of what is really a very trivial matter. The fact is that the observances in the Yard of the first Monday of the year are among the last relics of the days when the college man had more of the nature of an academy boy. An institution may be hoary with time and yet not be time-honored...
...other improvements in the building are almost entirely in the matter of ventilation. Two large ventilators have been placed in the lecture room on the second floor, and these ventilators are connected with immense electric fans placed under the roof. New ventilators have been put in all the laboratories, like wise connected with electric fans in the roof. When these fans are in motion the air in the rooms is constantly changing, so that the most thorough ventilation is secured...
...present itself in the Carey Building. Before the demand becomes too pressing might not the baths there be thrown open to general use? True, they would not prove wholly adequate, but better slight than total inadequacy. Students will realize that they are making the best of a bad matter, and will wait patiently for the good that is in store for them when the Gymnasium is completed; while without the Carey baths they will become forcibly and justly impatient...